4th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology – ICDSST 2018

& PROMETHEE DAYS 2018

Conference Program

Tuesday 22/5/2018

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 10:00

Conference Opening Session (EWG-DSS, PROMETHEE Days, HCMR) / Announcements

(The opening and closing session, all invited talks and panels will take place at the HCMR amphitheater)

10:00 - 11:00

Invited Talk 1

Professor Cathy Macharis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Including stakeholders in the decision and evaluation process: the

possibilities of the MAMCA methodology

Chair: Jason Papathanasiou

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00

Parallel Session 1a (ICDSST, amphitheater)

Collaborative, participatory and group DSS

Chair: Pascale Zarate

1. SK-DSSy: how to integrate the YouTube platform in a cooperative decision support?

Dario Torregrossa and Joachim Hansen

2. A Group Decision-Making Model for Supplier Selection: the Case of a Colombian Agricultural Research Company

Jenny Milena Moreno Rodriguez, Takanni Hannaka Abreu Kang, Eduarda Asfora Frej and Adiel Teixeira de Almeida

3. Normalization Techniques for Collaborative Platforms

Nazanin Vafaei, Rita Ribeiro, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and Maria L.R. Varela

4. An Interactive Learning Environment Based on System Dynamics

Methodology for Sustainable Mobility Challenges Communication &

Citizens’ Engagement

Glykeria Myrovali, Georgios Tsaples, Maria Morfoulaki, Georgia

Aifadopoulou and Jason Papathanasiou

5. How to model Stakeholder participation for Flood Management

Marta Dell'Ovo, Francesca Torrieri and Alessandra Oppio

Parallel Session 1b (PROMETHEE Days, seminar room)

Environmental applications of PROMETHEE

Chair: Jean-Philippe Waaub

1. Multiple Criteria Analysis in Forest Policy planning: Sustainable Agroforestry in Less Favoured Areas

Stefanos Tsiaras, Jason Papathanasiou and George Tsiotras

2. Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) for Assessing Agricultural Sustainability

Byomkesh Talukder and Keith W. Hipel

3. Comparing the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with PROMETHEE’s ranking for the first thirty countries for 2016

Panagiota Digkoglou and Jason Papathanasiou

4. Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines: Assessing their sustainability in remote areas in comparison with a commercial small wind turbine

Katerina Troullaki, Stelios Rozakis and Fausto Freire

13:00 - 14:15 Light Lunch

14:15 - 15:15

Invited Talk 2

Professor Jean-Philippe Waaub, University of Quebec, Canada. Multicriteria and multi-stakeholder decision aid: lessons learned from

environmental case studies

Chair: Bertrand Mareschal

15:15 - 17:00

Parallel Session 2a (ICDSST, amphitheater)

DSS models

Chair: Boris Delibasic

1. A multilabel prediction model for predicting part of the body and type of ski injury

Sandro Radovanovid, Boris Delibašid and Milija Suknovic

2. Critical Events and Critical Infrastructures: A System Dynamics Approach

Stefano Armenia, Georgios Tsaples and Camillo Carlini

3. Forecasting Models Comparison: Statistical vs. Machine Learning

Xin James He

4. Expected Shortfall of the Makespan in Interval-Valued Activity

Networks

Carlo Meloni and Marco Pranzo

5. OR/MS citation in the Environmental domain

Peter Keenan

Parallel Session 2b (PROMETHEE Days, seminar room)

Sustainable Approaches with PROMETHEE

Chair: Bertrand Mareschal

1. Sustainable Energy Transition Readiness: A multicriteria assessment based on PROMETHEE II

Hera Neofytou, Alexandros Nikas, Eleftherios Siskos and Haris Doukas

2. Evaluation of Renewable Energy Sources in the Context of Brazilian Ports Using the PROMETHEE-ROC Approach

Takanni Hannaka Abreu Kang, Dayla Karolina Fossile, Sérgio Eduardo Gouvea Da Costa, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa and Adiel Teixeira de Almeida

3. An Integrated MCDA Model for making Sustainable Investment Decisions on the basis of SDGs

Micheal Akampa

4. New Directions toward Sustainable Banking Practices: An environmental efficiency evaluation of Brazilian Federal Saving Bank branches.

Thyago C. Nepomuceno, Cinzia Daraio and Ana Paula Costa

17:00 - 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:00

Parallel Session 3a (ICDSST, amphitheater)

Security and safety

Chair: Maro Vlahopoulou

1. Cybersecurity threats: a proposed system for assessing threat severity

George Tsakalidis, Kostas Vergidis, Michael Madas and Maro Vlachopoulou

2. Information Systems Policy and Strategic Planning: The Alignment between Organizational Factors and ICT Security Management

Fotis Kitsios, Maria Kamariotou, Ioannis Mavridis and Panagiotis Fouliras

3. Big Data Analytics to Improve the Decision-Making Process in Public Safety: A Case Study in Northeast Brazil

Jean Turet and Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa

4. A Decision Support System to Define Public Safety Policies

Ana Paula Henriques de Gusmão, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, Maisa Mendonça Silva and Thárcylla Clemente

5. Using IBM Watson for profiling the students of a Greek University

Dimitris Xenos, Chariton Tsakalidis, Kostas Vergidis and Maro

Vlachopoulou

Parallel Session 3b (PROMETHEE Days, seminar room)

Applications of PROMETHEE

Chair: Cathy Macharis

1. Decision-support framework for prioritization in implementation of the bicycle path sections

Drazenko Glavic and Marina Milenkovic

2. Modeling instigators of racism, abuse in football: The case of six EU countries

Theodore Tarnanidis, Jason Papathanasiou, Georgios Tsaples and Stratos Moschidis

3. Decision Support to Facade Renovation Planning for Small Multi-story Buildings

Niksa Jajac, Marko Mladineo, Nenad Mladineo and Lucija Turcinov

4. A DSS models for selection of Computer on Module based on PROMETHEE and DEX methods

Gjorgji Nusev, Pavle Boškoski, Marko Bohanec and Biljana Mileva Boshkoska

Wednesday 23/5/2018

9:00 - 10:45

Parallel Session 4 (ICDSST, amphitheater)

DSS Models and frameworks

Chair: Isabelle Linden

1. An Ontology-based Decision Support Framework for Personalized Quality of Life Recommendations

Marina Riga, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Kostas Karatzas, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris

2. A Sustainable Knowledge-based Innovation Strategy Framework

Dimitrios Mitroulis and Fotis Kitsios

3. A Modelling Approach to Generating User Acceptance Tests

Leandro Antonelli, Guy Camilleri, Julián Grigera, Mariángeles Hozikian, Cécile Sauvage and Pascale Zarate

4. A new function for ensemble pruning

Souad Taleb Zouggar and Abdelkader Adla

Parallel Session 5 (ICDSST, seminar room)

Sustainable Logistics and Transportation I

Chair: Marko Bohanec

1. Multi-source traffic prediction in cities with harbor for reducing congestion

Josep-Maria Salanova, Panagiotis Tzenos

2. Logistics plan in cities with ports: The case of Kavala, Greece

Georgia Aifadopoulou and Josep-Maria Salanova

3. A Quintuple Helix – based Decision Support Framework Towards the Implementation of Low Carbon and Resilient Supply Chains

Adrian Solomon and Panayiotis Ketikidis

4. Decision Support Systems for Managing Broad Transitions to Renewables

Renato Flôres and Ruderico Pimentel

5. Strategic Information Systems in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Fotis Kitsios, Maria Kamariotou, Michael Madas, Konstantinos Fouskas and Vicky Manthou

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk 3

Professor Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Prolegomena for decentralised decision-making platforms – An agent

environments perspective

Chair: Fatima Dargam

12:00 - 13:00

Panel 1: "Exploiting experiences with European Collaboration Projects: from Proposal Preparation & Evaluation to Project Participation & Coordination"

Chair: Pavlos Delias

Panelists: Dr. Fatima Dargam, SimTech Simulation Technology & REACH, Austria Prof. Shaofeng Liu, University of Plymouth, UK Prof. Rita Ribeiro, UNINOVA University, Portugal Prof. Pascale Zarate, Toulouse University / IRIT, France Dr. Lucia Fanini, HCMR, Greece

Panel 1 is sponsored by REACH Innovation Consultancy (www.reach-consultancy.eu): REACH will draw a prize among the participants for a free virtual Coaching Consulting Session on EU Funding, Program & Calls for Projects right after Panel 1.

13:00 - 14:15 Light Lunch

14:15 - 16:00

Parallel Session 6 (ICDSST, amphitheater)

Sustainable Logistics and Transportation II

Chair: Rita Ribeiro

1. Low data intensive modal split model for supporting taxi policy making. Case study in Cyprus

Josep-Maria Salanova

2. Multi-source data framework for the estimation of risks in the transport of dangerous goods

Josep-Maria Salanova, Thanasis Gkoutzikas, Stratis Zacharis and Emmanouil Chaniotakis

3. Building theory of agri-food supply chain resilience using total interpretive structural modelling and MICMAC analysis

Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu and Carmen Lopez

4. An Agent-Based Decision Support System for Supply Chain Management in the Petroleum Industry

Florina Covaci and Pascale Zarate

Parallel Session 7 (ICDSST, seminar room)

Policy planning

Chair: Fatima Dargam

1. SIRPSS-Sustainable Industrial Site Redevelopment Planning Support System

Tong Wang, Qi Han and Bauke De Vries

2. Toward an Intelligent Integrated System for Urban Planning Using GIS and Cloud Computing

Khelifa Boudjemaa, Ridda Laouar and Sean Eom

3. An Intelligent Multi-Agent System using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Axiomatic Design as a Decision Support Method for Refugee Settlement Siting

Maria Drakaki, Hacer Guner Goren and Panagiotis Tzionas

4. Skills and Mindsets for an Analytically Innovative Organisation

Yusuf-Ali Karbelkar and Mike Hart

5. Towards an application of higher-order networks to political events

analysis

Christiana Pantermali, Zafeiris Papavaritis and Pavlos Delias

16:00 - 17:00

Invited Talk 4

Dr Stefano Armenia, SYDIC, Italy. When two worlds collide: the new era of Smart Model-based Governance

Chair: José Maria Moreno

Interval to get ready for Conference Dinner

18:30 Bus

19:00 Official Conference Dinner

Thursday 24/5/2018

9:00 - 10:45

Session 8a (ICDSST, amphitheater)

Decision Support for Transport Planning and Operation

Chair: Georgia Aifantopoulou

1. Methodology for the development of sustainable MaaS business models

Guido Di Pasquale

2. Social media data for supporting transportation planning

Ioannis Toumpalidis, Nicolaos Karanikolas, Josep-Maria Salanova and Panagiotis Tzenos

3. Exploring the commercialization potential of freight transport services

Iraklis Stamos and Monica Giannini

4. Sustainable Development and Morphological Analysis: A Multi-Level Strategic Planning for the Transport Sector

Maria De Fátima Teles and Jorge Freire De Sousa

5. Theoretical and Empirical Evidence of a Knowledge Mobilization Framework for Lean Supply Chain Decisions in Agro-food Industry

Huilan Chen, Shaofeng Liu, Festus Oderanti and Biljana Mileva Boshkoska

Session 8b (PROMETHEE Days, seminar room)

PROMETHEE Methods & Applications

Chair: Jean-Pierre Brans

1. PROMETHEE based ranking of project managers’ based on the five personality traits

Georgios Aretoulis

2. Goal Programming and PROMETHEE Method as an evaluation tool for a Seaplanes' Network in Greece

Charalampos Nikolaos Roukounis and Georgios Aretoulis

3. CCDAP: An approach to Classify Community Detection Algorithms

with PROMETHEE II

Samia Mohand Arab, Noria Taghezout and Fatima Zohra Benkaddour

4. Global sensitivity analysis in PROMETHEE

Sándor Bozóki

5. PROMETHEE R: from ranking to rating

Bertrand Mareschal

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Invited Talk 5

Professor Milosz Kadzinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding in action: using the diviz software

Chair: Jean-Pierre Brans

12:00 - 13:00

Panel 2: "Ethics and Decision"

Chair: Jason Papathanasiou

Panelists: Prof. Jean-Pierre Brans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Prof. Bertrand Mareschal, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Prof. Jean-Philippe Waaub, University of Quebec, Canada Dr. Fatima Dargam, SimTech Simulation Technology & ILTC, Austria Prof. Pascale Zarate, Toulouse University / IRIT, France Dr. George Kotoulas, HCMR, Greece

13:00 - 14:15 Light Lunch

14:15 - 16:15

Session 9 (ICDSST, amphitheater)

Decision support systems for sustainable freight transportation in Europe and India

Chairs: Adrian Solomon and Alok Choudary

1. An Integrated Performance Evaluation Model for Sustainable

Freight Transportation

Devendra Kumar Pathak, Ravi Shankar and Alok Choudhary

2. A Sustainable Order Quantity model under a Cap and Trade system

Daria Battini, Martina Calzavara, Fabio Sgarbossa and Francesco Zangaro

3. Risk Assessment in Freight Transportation Systems for Ensuring Safety and Sustainability

Ravi Shankar, Divya Choudhary and Alok Choudhary

4. Towards a Benchmarking Tool for Sustainable Freight Transportation

Erica Ballantyne, Akhilesh Kumar and Nagendra Velaga

5. Multi-period reverse logistic network design with vehicle allocation

Akhilesh Kumar, Kondreddy Nageswara Reddy and Manoj Tiwari

6. A hybrid decision-making methodology for prioritizing collaborative processes in sustainable freight transport

Fahham Hasan Qaiser, Arijit De, Martin Sykora, Ravi Shankar and

Alok Choudhary

PD Group meeting – EWG Executive Board meeting

16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00

Sponsor remote session (amphitheater)

Max Henrion (Lumina)

Chair: Boris Delibasic

17:00 - 17:15 EWG-DSS Presentation – Project Collab-Net

17:15 - 18:45

Poster Session and Networking

1. Project Collab-Net (Version 5)

Jean Turet, Jadielson Moura, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, Fatima Dargam, Pascale Zaraté and Isabelle Linden

2. A decision support system for high quality forecasting based on Artificial Intelligence

Sabine Ritter and Martin Seidler

3. A Decision Support System for the Selection of Biomass Separation Equipment

Junko Hutahaean, Pablo Brito-Parada and Jan Cilliers

4. Cognitive visualization tools in an ahp-multiactor context

Alberto Turón and José María Moreno-Jiménez

5. Developing a Bayesian network model for transportation system decision aid in nature conservation areas – Experiences from the Geirangerfjord World Heritage Site

Dina Margrethe Aspen, Børge Heggen Johansen and Magnus Sparrevik

Friday 25/5/2018

09:00 - 10:45

Session 10 (ICDSST, seminar room)

DSS Cases Chair: Shaofeng Liu

1. Unveiling hidden patterns in flexible medical treatment processes - A process mining case study

Kathrin Kirchner and Petar Markovic

2. Building a web application with R programming language to support decision making. Case study: The use of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) on data from Greek thermal springs.

Stratos Moschidis and Theodore Tarnanidis

3. A smart campus design: data-driven and evidence-based decision support solution design

Uchitha Jayawickrama, Mohamed Sedky and Oumaima Ettahali

4. A novel secured agent-based approach for managing an ESN.

Mohamed Abdou Souidi and Noria Taghezout

Session 11 (ICDSST, amphitheater)

DSS Applications

Chair: Stefano Armenia

1. Towards a computer based ClimeFish DSS for aquaculture stakeholders in Greece

Orestis Stavrakidis-Zachou, Nikos Papandroulakis, Panagiotis Anastasiadis, Astrid Sturm and Konstadia Lika

2. Decision Support Systems & Tools for Airport Airside Performance Assessment

Michael Madas, Maro Vlachopoulou, Vassiliki Manthou, Fotis Kitsios and Kostas Vergidis

3. A web-based DSS for resource allocation in a Brazilian public University

Carolina Lino Martins, Pascale Zaraté, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Morais and Kurt Peters

4. Applications of DSSs in agricultural production planning in Greece

Jason Papathanasiou, Thomas Bournaris, Basil Manos and Georgios Tsaples

5. Computer Supported Team Formation

Georgios Stavrou, Panagiotis Adamidis and Jason Papathanasiou

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:30 EWG-DSS 2017 Best Paper Award Ceremony

11:30 - 11:45 Jean-Pierre Brans PROMETHEE Award Ceremony

11:45 - 12:15 EWG-DSS Presentations of the next ICDSST Conferences (2019 / 2020) and

IJDSST presentation

12:10 - 12:25 PROMETHEE Days next Conference (2019) Announcement

12:15 - 12:45 Conference Closing Session (ICDSST – PD 2018)